Sondra Hassan

I feel change in my bones… in my heart and soul.  Tears of joy continue to well up from time to time.  My family converged on DC from all over the east coast.  Seven of us piled in the Ford Focus for a drive to my office parking lot.  It was a good plan.  Just a one mile walk.  We arrived at the Capitol in the wee hours of the morning with a swelling crowd ahead and behind.  Not early enough, though. We  walked  and walked and walked a circuitous route.  Jubilance kept us going until we arrived at a spot on the Mall well past the Washington Monument about four miles from where we parked.

Two million people looks like TWO MILLION PEOPLE!  Never before and perhaps never again will there be such a magnificent sight.  Standing before a jumbotron and between tree branches my husband Rusty, sister Nikki, niece Ryan, her boyfriend Slava, his sister Natasha, her boyfriend Larry and I witnessed history.  A new President bringing a new era of hope, optimism and activism.  A change.  Much more than a change.  A new direction. God bless Barack Obama and give him and us all the strength to do the hard work that lies ahead.  The Storm is Passing Over!  That was the feeling I had.

Then the long trek back to the car.